BIRD NOTES

The predictions for winter finches forecast 2026-2027 has been released by Tyler Hoar.

Gerry Tyhuis and I decided to do some birding in Queens County on Oct. 3.

I recently finished reading, The Story of Birds, by Steve Brusatte. This is a book that describes the history of birds from their dinosaur origins to the present.

I led a field trip for Brier Island from Sept. 18-20. On Sept. 18 it started off as a rainy day. The forecast was that it was supposed to clear by around noon or in the afternoon on Brier Island.

I received a call from Kevin Lantz on Sept.14 that he had found a stilt sandpiper along the causeway that goes out to Conrad’s Island by Sand Dollar Beach in Rose Bay. I made my way over to search for the bird shortly after.

On Sept. 7 I received a call from Kevin Lantz letting me know that he had found three buff-breasted sandpipers at Hirtle’s Beach in Kingsburg.

On Aug. 29 I joined a small group of people for an outing at Indian Falls. I did not have much hope for seeing many migrants, but the birding was not bad.

My plans for Aug. 14 and 15 were to go to Brier Island on Friday and then on a pelagic there on Saturday and then back home.

I had originally planned to write a column on Two Days In The Life Of A Birder based on a trip that I made to Brier Island recently for a pelagic outing. That was before I found out about the discovery of an American avocet by Nick Von Mattzahn in Rose Bay at Sand Dollar Beach on Aug. 14.

On Aug. 6 Bette Veinotte was visiting her family cottage in Green Bay and saw 60 sanderlings.

I had gone after a few yellow-crowned night herons this year without success.

I led my usual field trip for the Nova Scotia Bird Society for Mahone Bay on July 25. I normally start at the three churches in Mahone Bay and then we walk along a stretch of the Mush-A-Mush River.